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musicalfilm · 1 year

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moira shearer as “olympia” in the tales of hoffmann (1951)

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hauntedorpheum · 2 years

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“Her figure is regular, certainly, and so is her face. She would be beautiful, but her eyes seem to have no ray of life; they almost seem to lack the power of sight. Her gait is curiously measured, as though her every movement were produced by some mechanism like clockwork. She plays and sings with the disagreeably perfect, soulless timing of a machine, and she dances similarly. Olimpia gave us a very weird feeling; we wanted nothing to do with her; we felt that she was only pretending to be a living being, and that there was something very strange about her.” –E.T.A. Hoffmann, “The Sandman” (Trans. Ritchie Robertson)

Metropolis (1927) The tales of Hoffmann (1951) The Stepford wives (1975) Coraline (2009)

#filmedit #filmgifs #horror #body horror #horroredit #? technically two of these are not horror but idk i would say this is horror lol #usergiles #tuserdana #userbrittany #metropolis #the tales of hoffmann #the stepford wives #coraline #mine

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cinemagal · 1 year

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THE TALES OF HOFFMANN (1951) dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

#filmedit #the tales of hoffmann #michael powell #emeric pressburger #1950s #moira shearer #robert rounseville #ludmilla tchérina #robert helpmann #frederick ashton #leonide massine #drama #art #ballet #dance #non gif #this film is a piece of artwork #beautiful

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monotonous-minutia · 12 days

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Random youtuber's reaction to the Violin Aria

#Les contes d'Hoffmann #the tales of hoffmann #still not my favorite production #poor Niklausse deserves so much better #but anyway #i thought this comment was funny #opera #opera tag #Jaques Offenbach #Jules Barbier #Michael Carré

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princesssarisa · 6 months

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The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 3 (#21 through #30)

A quick guide for newcomers to the genre, with links to online video recordings of complete performances, with English subtitles whenever possible.

Verdi's Il Trovatore

The second of Verdi's three great "middle period" tragedies (the other two being Rigoletto and La Traviata): a grand melodrama filled with famous melodies.

Studio film, 1957 (Mario del Monaco, Leyla Gencer, Ettore Bastianini, Fedora Barbieri; conducted by Fernando Previtali) (no subtitles; read the libretto in English translation here)

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

The most famous tragic opera in the bel canto style, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor, and featuring opera's most famous "mad scene."

Studio film, 1971 (Anna Moffo, Lajos Kozma, Giulio Fioravanti, Paolo Washington; conducted by Carlo Felice Cillario)

Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

The most famous example of verismo opera: brutal Italian realism from the turn of the 20th century. Jealousy, adultery, and violence among a troupe of traveling clowns.

Feature film, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons, Alberto Rinaldi; conducted by Georges Prêtre)

Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI

Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

Mozart's comic Singspiel (German opera with spoken dialogue) set amid a Turkish harem. What it lacks in political correctness it makes up for in outstanding music.

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1988 (Deon van der Walt, Inga Nielsen, Lillian Watson, Lars Magnusson, Kurt Moll, Oliver Tobias; conducted by Georg Solti) (click CC for subtitles)

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera

A Verdi tragedy of forbidden love and political intrigue, inspired by the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden.

Leipzig Opera House, 2006 (Massimiliano Pisapia, Chiara Taigi, Franco Vassallo, Annamaria Chiuri, Eun Yee You; conducted by Riccardo Chailly) (click CC for subtitles)

Part I, Part II

Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)

A half-comic, half-tragic fantasy opera based on the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, in which the author becomes the protagonist of his own stories of ill-fated love.

Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2018 (Juan Diego Flórez, Olga Peretyatko, Nicolas Courjal, Sophie Marilley; conducted by Jacques Lacombe) (click CC and choose English in "Auto-translate" under "Settings" for subtitles)

Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

An early and particularly accessible work of Wagner, based on the legend of a phantom ship doomed to sail the seas until its captain finds a faithful bride.

Savolinna Opera, 1989 (Franz Grundheber, Hildegard Behrens, Ramiro Sirkiä, Matti Salminen; conducted by Leif Segerstam) (click CC for subtitles)

Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana

A one-act drama of adultery and scorned love among Sicilian peasants, second only to Pagliacci (with which it's often paired in a double bill) as the most famous verismo opera.

St. Petersburg Opera, 2012 (Fyodor Ataskevich, Iréne Theorin, Nikolay Kopylov, Ekaterina Egorova, Nina Romanova; conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov)

Verdi's Falstaff

Verdi's final opera, a "mighty burst of laughter" based on Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Studio film, 1979 (Gabriel Bacquier, Karan Armstrong, Richard Stilwell, Marta Szirmay, Jutta Renate Ihloff, Max René Cosotti; conducted by Georg Solti) (click CC for subtitles)

Verdi's Otello (Othello)

Verdi's second-to-last great Shakespearean opera, based on the tragedy of the Moor of Venice.

Teatro alla Scala, 2001 (Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Barbara Frittoli; conducted by Riccardo Muti)

#opera #top 40 #21 through 30 #video #complete performances #english subtitles #il trovatore #lucia di lammermoor #pagliacci #die entfuhrung aus dem serail #the abduction from the seraglio #un ballo in maschera #les contes d'hoffmann #the tales of hoffmann #der fliegende holländer #the flying dutchman #cavalleria rusticana #falstaff #otello

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cinematicjourney · 2 years

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The Tales of Hoffman (1951) | dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

#the tales of hoffmann #michael powell #emeric pressburger #ann ayars #robert rounseville #mogens wieth #films #movies #cinematography #screencaps

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winternymphaea · 1 year

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ludmilla tcherina in the tales of hoffmann (1951) .

#the tales of hoffmann #1950s #50s #vintage #ludmilla tcherina #aphrodite #venus #the birth of venus #sea #ocean #siren #mermaid #mermaidcore #sirencore #ethereal #whimsical #nymphaea's whispers

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colors-of-my-heart · 1 year

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#please give me more singing doll girls #wanna collect them and put them on my shelf #ride the cyclone #rtc jane doe #penny lamb #the Devil’s carnival #tdc painted doll #Emilie Autumn #opera #the tales of hoffmann #Olympia the tales of Hoffman

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sonjackcarl · 1 year

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#The Tales of Hoffmann #gif #Michael Powell #Emeric Pressburger #film

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infinitelytheheartexpands · 7 months

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i’m fine i’m fine i’m fine <- lying

#opera tag #opera #les contes d'hoffmann #the tales of hoffmann #it’s already been kind of a shitty day and it’s not even noon yet. thanks work.#offenbach #jacques offenbach #Spotify

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opera-ghosts · 3 months

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Coloratura Comparison! Four historic sopranos wind up Olympia's DOLL SONG, High E-flat THE SONGBIRDS: Aurelia Revy (1879 - 1957) was Hungarian and sang several seasons in London, Milan, Vienna, and Berlin.

THE MUSIC: Jacques Offenbach composed at least 100 works for the stage in the 34 years between 1847 and 1881. Yet only his masterpiece “Les Contes de Hoffmann” lives in the standard repertory, deservedly so. According to operabase.com, “Hoffmann” is the second most performed French opera in the world, after “Carmen.” The first of three fantasy lovers that the poet Hoffmann conjures in the story is Olympia. Initially she appears luminous to Hoffmann, but she turns out to be a mechanical doll. She only has one aria in the opera, "Les oiseaux dans la charmille," commonly referred to as the Doll Song. And what an aria it is -- an extremely popular and challenging coloratura showpiece. This ditty is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to overlook how clever and original it is: Offenbach ingeniously composed an intricate and precise coloratura vocal line to convey Olympia's wind-up doll characteristics, all with a bit of a wink. It's inevitably a crowd pleaser for sopranos who can display their technique and have a little fun at the same time.